Ashley Fish

Use this template to create and design a 3D snowflake. Step-by-step instructions along with pictures included. Great for art projects or gift idea for parents. Ashley Fish http://phishdiaries.blogspot.com/

A semantic gradient (or word gradient) is a way to deepen students' understanding of related words. Students place words on a continuum and are forced to consider varying degrees of meaning. Students take a set of related words and arrange them based on degrees of the qualifying factor. You can also use sets of antonyms and have them create a bridge from one antonym to the other (Sad & Happy). Students share the reasoning behind their choices. Can be used as an individual, partner o

Use this rights and responsibilities puzzle and sorting activity to go along with your characteristics of a good citizen unit. You can use the puzzles many different ways: *Use in partners or table groups before your unit to access prior knowledge. *Social Studies center activity– With a partner, students each get a category, either “Rights” or “Responsibilities.” They then mix up and turn over the remaining cards. The game is played like “Memory,” and students must match items that fit under

An interactive social studies journal page about the qualities of being a good citizen. Students will explore the qualities of equality, fairness, truth, love and doing good for others. Great to use as an introductory for a unit on citizenship. http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Ashley-Fish http://phishdiaries.blogspot.com

Vocabulary activities to go along with The Three Snow Bears by Jan Brett. This presentation includes: *Visual vocabulary slides *Cloze vocabulary activity Book excerpts can be found at Jan Brett’s website: http://www.janbrett.com/index.html Graphics/fonts copyright DJ Inkers. www.djinkers.com

This packet includes the following graphs that can be used in individual student data/leadership notebooks or for use in RTI/tutoring. It is very useful for tracking student progress and in parent conferences! My school is a Leader in Me school, so the students use these to track their own progress and self-assess how their studying and effort effected their scores. Contents: *Math Facts *Problem Solving- UPS check *Fluency-Lower Level *Fluency- Upper Level *Reading Counts Points-lower *Readi

A behavioral management system to motivate and engage students. This packet includes: ~Star Bucks *ones *fives *tens *fifties *hundreds *thousands ~Seat Fairy positive notes and fines ~10 different passes that students can purchase ~Class Dojo graph

Students self-reflect on their classroom job for the week. Use as a part of data/leadership notebooks.

Students will add three numbers together and create a number sentence. Each number group includes either a "ten" or a "double".

Have students preview and make predictions before reading Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin. Can be used whole group or individually.